Gov. Sarah Palin is enmeshed in media interviews this week, presumably trying to repair her bruised image from the brutal presidential race and the malicious reporters who dogged her every step of the way. Palin says she's doing these interviews for the

Michelle Girard of RBS Greenwich Capital dissects the jobless data for Simon Constable of Dow Jones, and explains how the bad situation will likely get a whole lot worse before it gets better. © 2008 The Wall Street Journal

691,000 children went hungry even before this year's sharp economic downturn, the USDA reported. How many USA kids are starving right now? Noted by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.

A Chapter 11 restructuring bid by one of the three top U.S. automakers is unlikely to succeed due to the damaged economy and frozen credit markets, and may even result in the company folding, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross told Bloomberg

Merrill Lynch couldn't escape the housing crash as record waves of homeowners defaulted on their mortgages.

Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.

Regardless of what you are hearing in the news, on the radio, on tv or even from your friends. There are 303,000,000 plus people living in the USA and they will continue to live here, raise their families here and spend money here.

Several high-profile technology companies, human rights organizations, academics and investors have joined forces to launch the Global Network Initiative (GNI). Announced Tuesday, the GNI intends to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy th

The Wall Street calamity that obliterated $2 trillion in retirement savings nationwide has left Bay State baby boomers with shattered careers, retirement plans and hopes.

A relative of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and one of his former cabinet secretaries are part of a private investment group that could score a lucrative payoff if regulators approve a sprawling solar-energy complex near the Mojave Desert Preserve.